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Donald Trump's sickness
Lemme get this straight:
Kegsbreath wants to check T levels and give soldiers GENDER AFFIRMING CARE? WIth YOUR tax dollars?!
remember pigs don’t oink
pigs say GET ON THE GROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD MOTHER FUCKER
KARMA…
WHAT A DAY:
A federal judge voided the IRS’ $1.8 billion settlement with Trump over his leaked tax returns, saying that the case was filed for the “improper purpose” of self-dealing.
Turns out, you’re not supposed to sue an agency that you control, and then give yourself a massive settlement! Who would’ve thought.
Trump walked into a summit full of America's closest allies and got treated like a child who might flip the table. For two days the leaders of the free world took turns managing his moods, bracing for tantrums, and quietly working around him.
Trump gushed over his host, Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, praising their "chemistry," lifting U.S. sanctions, and dangling F-35 fighter jets. He admitted flat out that Erdoğan was the only reason he bothered to show up.
Warmth for the autocrat. Contempt for the democracies.
Because with the allies, he came in swinging.
Before the summit even opened, he posted a photo of Italy's Giorgia Meloni captioned "RESTRAINING ORDER NEEDED." He called Spain a "terrible partner in NATO" and threatened its trade. He announced, once again, that the United States should simply take Greenland from Denmark.
Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, didn't blink. She said her country would defend every inch of its territory, and that American ownership of Greenland was not going to happen. She said it to his face, with the cameras rolling, then walked back into the room.
Watch what the grownups did next.
Mark Rutte, the secretary general, spent the summit feeding Trump compliments about defense spending so he wouldn't storm off, coaxing him along with lines like "grab the win, it's there." European reporters have started openly calling Rutte the alliance's chief Trump flatterer, and they mean it as a diagnosis, not a compliment.
That was the ceiling of the summit's ambition. Keep the American president distracted enough to stay in the building.
And it isn't just talk. The Pentagon quietly told allies it's running a six-month review of U.S. troop levels in Europe.
Meanwhile a bloc of European members and Canada started drawing up their own naval mission for the North Atlantic and Arctic, one that doesn't include American forces. They looked at the man threatening to seize Greenland and decided to guard the region without him.
Then there was Emmanuel Macron.
Macron wore his aviator sunglasses the entire summit. Indoors. In the group photo. Jogging through Ankara at dawn. The Élysée calls it an eye condition; the internet calls it a look. Either way, a French president turned a defense summit into a runway, cool and unbothered, moving like he owned the continent.
Now stand the two of them side by side.
One man carried himself like the future had already arrived.
The other sat by the door pouting to reporters, a grumpy old man insisting nobody appreciates him, while the friends he'd spent all week insulting quietly made plans to sail off without him.
NYTIMES:
The Trump administration moved to allow farming, drilling and mining in the habitats of endangered animals.
Environmentalists called it the most severe cut to wildlife protections in 50 years.
This is exactly what I voted against!
